The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-24
Windsor County.
Bethel.

QUITE an important real estate transact
ton, in the selling of the Wilson House in
this place to j. ID. Lawrence of Hartford,
took place last week. Mr.. Lawrence will at
once thoroughly repair and refurnsh il in
modern style, and when done the house will
be placed under the superintendent of Mr..
f. a. Holmes, formerly of the st. Johns
bury House, whose reputation as a hotel
keeper is surpassed by none in this section.
The public will of course deeply regret the
retirement of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson from
the house, but the increasing intirmities of
age compel them to take the step. Under
the management of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
the house has become famous and enjoyed
large run of patronage, which it is thought
the new management will be able to retain,
for with the house newly retitted, and with
their ambition to excel and their determine
ton to please, it is thought that the former
very high reputation of the house will be
sustained and its patronage increased.
- Quite a novel entertainment was
given some of our people last Friday morn
ing. 1t seems that some one had drawn j e.
G.. Sargent load of wood and after unload
ing il had left their oxen standing unhitched
near by where there We're some posts with
rails on top of them for hitching places To
one of these was hitched the horse and
wagon of Frank IL. Chamberlain. Becom-
ing uneasy, the oxen started along and
hitched on to the wagon of Mr.. Chamber
lain, pulling it backwards, drawing horse,
wagon, hitching-post and all along with it
for nearly three rods, when the oxen, walk
ing faster than the horse could back, pulled
the horses neck around throwing him into
the road Fortunately nothing was dam
aged except the posts being broken TO
which the horse was hitched, 80 Some
of the cottages upon the camp-ground were
taken down last week and carried to White
River Junction to be put upon the grounds in
that place. - Some of our young people
enjoyed their annual straw-ride on Friday
| evening. 80 From the large number of
horses that are here training we should
Judge that the horse-show mt the coming
fair will be a large one. 80 Fifteen or
twenty of our young people had a jolly
corn-roast at Mr.. Barrows' on Saturday
evening. Our village school begins
next Monday, with w. NJ Cragin as princi-
pal, Miss Annie Clark in the grammar de-
partment, Miss May Chadwick in the inter-
mediate and Miss Mary Leonard of Gays
| Vile in the primary as teachers. - The
attendance at the camp-meeting on Sunday
was quite large. = Owing to the mis-
| taken economy of the selectmen in using
some old timbers in building the abutments
of the first bridge above the Locust Creek
! House some years ago the bridge has now
settled so as to be impossible, necesstatng
| the expense of building another one. 80
| 1t used to be the fashion to use dinner-horns
| to call people to dinner. 1t now seems to be
the fashion for some young people when they
| go out for ride to blow them, that the people
along the route may look at them. -
| As Mrs. Robert French, daughter and a
| lady friend from Boston were driving a
span of horses down the hill near Mrs.